Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:03:24PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:22:36PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:

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Hi Greg,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:

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Hi Greg,

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 14:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]
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There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the
net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed
from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps
up to maintain it.

Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Du Cheng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

As far as I know, QRTR/IPCR is still commonly used with Qualcomm-based
platforms for accessing various components of the SoC.
CCing Bjorn and Mani, In case they are interested in taking maintenance of
that.

As Loic said, QRTR is an integral component used in various Qualcomm based
upstream supported products like ChromeOS, newer WLAN chipsets (QCA6390) etc...

It is unfortunate that no one stepped up so far to maintain it. After
having an internal discussion, I decided to pitch in as a maintainer. I'll
send the MAINTAINERS change to netdev list now.

Great, can you also fix up the reported problems with the codebase that
resulted in this "ask for removal"?

Yes, ofc. I do see couple of Syzbot bug reports now... I will look into them.
It turned out I fixed one of them earlier but should've handled all :)

Thanks,
Mani

thanks,

greg k-h